It used to be that people dressed up for air travel. A trip on a plane meant suits, dresses, shiny shoes, slick hair, and nonstop excitement with smiles and small talk throughout the entire flight. I can't speak for everyone, but at least for myself flying today means sweatpants and hoodies, shoes that support my arches walking 2 miles between terminals, and then slip off easily the second I take my seat, and a Santa Claus sack of diversions and devices to keep me entertained or asleep enough that I don't have to say anything beyond "Hello" to the dude sitting next to me. Basically a very calculated collection of steps and items to make the experience not even comfortable, but just slightly less miserable than it would be otherwise.

So far, I've got everything nailed down but the sleeping, and NodPod thinks it can take care of that. Clearly, the restraining device-looking head cradle and garbage sack blanket comprising the Nod and Pod portions of the product look ridiculous on anyone wearing them. But clearly too, I no longer give a flying 747 about what I look like when I travel. If this thing works, I'm in.

NodPod calls the quality of the sleep it gives travelers "amazing." This goes for frequent fliers, road trippers, and the Amtrak loyalists alike. Its Nod head support hooks over the back of your seat, and then underneath your chin to, they say, mimic the way you sleep on a bed, but in an upright position. It keeps your head, neck, and back perpendicular, and at a 90-degree angle. The Pod then cocoons sleepers' full bodies in a blanket of warmth that won't fall off as you snooze.

Complete NodPod features include:

Patented "over-the-top" design prevents your head from jolting forward, left, or right. In other words, no more bobbleheading it until you jerk hard enough to scare yourself awake and knock over your neighbor's airline bottle of Jim Beam.

A memory foam Nod interior conforms to your face and cradles your chin as you drool on it.

Speaking of which, the pillow's exterior is made of a water-repellent, PU-coated fabric that makes it easy to clean.

The Pod travel blanket has an open back so you can step into it all at once, even while seated in a cramped space. This also keeps it in place as you sleep.

The Pod is also water- and windproof for warmth on drafty planes, trains, and cars.

Blankets have a front storage pocket for books, glasses, and phones.

Both items fold down into included carrying cases small enough to stuff in a suitcase, backpack, or your seat front pocket. Together they measures 5" x 7".

Don't just simulate them in a Jet Bed, realize your aero-fantasies with the Luxury Mile High Club Experience. Wish.co.uk, peddlers of myriad activities intended to prevent life and its inhabitants from becoming boring...

Holy hovering vehicle of flight! It's the ZERO concept helicopter from Spanish helicopter thinker upper Hector del Amo. How does it work? How fast can it go? How far can it go? Is it safe? Who the hell knows?! Apparently...

The Tonke Fieldsleeper isn't just a camper, it's a camper straight out of The Brady Bunch. Check out that wood paneling and groovy baby blue laminate interior. Sure, mint green or rusty orange would have been better...

The Smartduvet self-making bed - no, really. The bed makes itself. Just watch. And that's old news. Smartduvet is now launching a next generation of their smart bedding, the Breeze, that adds dual-zone climate control...

I love you a bushel and a peck and a knife around the neck. No, no, it's not sinister, it's a Kershaw Neck Knife. The AM-6, a utility blade designed by Al Mar Knives. A sweet gift for a man, not the morbid nursery rhyme...

One time I threw a boomerang and it came back and sliced me in the neck. So I'm glad to see this Boomerang Memory Foam Pillow is here to cradle and support and eliminate pain from my neck, and maybe make some amends for...

It's called The Harambed. Lucid Mattress says it's the bed of your memes. And I know if you've been meming at all over the past year, you've been meming about Harambe, haven't you? Well put on your PJs and snuggle in...

Say "I do" to Motiv and the ring will be your loyal fitness tracker, sleep tracker, and heart rate monitor 'til death do you part. Day and night, at home or in the gym, even in the shower and pool. Even if you gain a...

The Zerobody is a sensory deprivation float tank that removes the one major P in the A side effect of floating: getting wet. (True, drowning is kind of a pain too, but most of these tanks have only about a foot of water...

Remember that one time you let some chick drag you to hot yoga because she too was hot and you wanted to see her do bendy things in spandex pants, but then you ended up spending the whole class lying on your back trying...